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| Bleaching your cat? | |
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| Topic Started: Apr 23 2014, 09:29 AM (275 Views) | |
| Deleted User | Apr 23 2014, 09:29 AM Post #1 |
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I have a problem with Red. He simply will not stay off of the kitchen counters....who wants to come here for dinner? And since I also have a problem with germs, I use bleach to sanitize my countertops. Red seems to love bleach! I wait until he is asleep in another room, and then I spray the countertops, scrub them with a sponge and then wipe them dry. For the third time in a row, Red jumped up on the counter before I had a chance to wipe it dry while my back was turned cleaning another counter, and rolled around in the bleach. I immediately rubbed him down with a dry towel, but I fear rinsing him off because then he will definitely groom himself, where if I just wipe him down, he doesn't. Any suggestions would be much appreciated. We have tried everything. There is a loaded water pistol on the counter, but if our backs are turned he just steps over it (though he will head for the hills if I pick it up). Makes no difference how many times I squirt him in the act. |
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| goldengal | Apr 23 2014, 10:00 AM Post #2 |
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There is a discussion here BJ on this very thing. I only read the first two submissions. Might be something helpful. http://www.askmehelpdesk.com/advice/t-3934.html Take care, Pat |
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| Deleted User | Apr 23 2014, 10:12 AM Post #3 |
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OMG! Pat, thank you. I never heard of other cats doing this. How did you ever find this? |
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| Trotsky | Apr 23 2014, 10:15 AM Post #4 |
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Does Clorox put catnip in for fragrance? Or more likely, maybe it smells a bit like strong urine? BJ, Switch to Lysol, it might not be so attractive. (DON'T use ammonia.) Edited by Trotsky, Apr 23 2014, 10:16 AM.
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| Alli | Apr 23 2014, 10:28 AM Post #5 |
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Yup my Smudge used to do the same thing.... smelled like another cat's urine or so I was told.. so he was marking himself or marking the floor and counter. It was weird because he'd do the same when I did laundry and had a bleachy scent... He'd be rolling purring like it was an aphrodisiac laugh123 He was fixed too... Some cats are drawn to weird proclivities like those tastes and smells.... I was scared he'd poison himself so I switched to natural cleaning products that had an orange scent. He wasn't too crazy about that but in time my vet said they could become ill from ingesting residual bleach substances... Posted Image Edited by Alli, Apr 23 2014, 10:34 AM.
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| goldengal | Apr 23 2014, 10:52 AM Post #6 |
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I typed in the search engine 'If a cat licks a counter sprayed with bleach will it hurt them?' Take care, Pat |
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| angora | Apr 23 2014, 11:43 AM Post #7 |
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Advice to people who have cats is not to clean 'accidents' with bleach because some of them are attracted to the smell. I don't know how to stop them though. What does the article say? |
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| Deleted User | Apr 23 2014, 12:55 PM Post #8 |
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The article didn't actually address how to make them stop. It was just a series of posts from frantic cats owners whose cats all did the same thing Red does. I am going to try a suggestion Fuzzy gave me. |
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| FuzzyO | Apr 23 2014, 03:18 PM Post #9 |
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I am anti-bleach and only use it very rarely. Use of bleach is banned in hospitals and long-term care facilities in Ontario. |
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| Dana | Apr 23 2014, 04:03 PM Post #10 |
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"I am going to try a suggestion Fuzzy gave me" What is that suggestion? I was going to say, try using vinegar instead and see if they dislike that odour . |
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| David | Apr 23 2014, 04:14 PM Post #11 |
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I read somewhere that prevention is most effective. Put cookie sheets on the counter, hanging off the edge and it'll scare the hell out of them when they jump on them and knock them off. Also, using 2-sided sticky tape, several tin cans with pennies in them, sheets of aluminum foil on the counter, gritty sandpaper on the counter. Supposedly it'll only take a few good scares to teach them. |
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| Trotsky | Apr 23 2014, 11:32 PM Post #12 |
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Bleach also comes with a lemon scent. Perhaps it's worth a gallon trial to see if it might turn Red off. |
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| blizzard | Apr 24 2014, 05:24 AM Post #13 |
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I use soap and vinegar for our wood (finished and treated) counter. It does not keep Mozzy off the counter, nor did it for any of the cats who lived here as the counter was a wonderful route for them from upper room to kitchen to back room, but it is safer. I like the cookie sheet idea as an option. Of course it might scare me! Perhaps I will try it in the new place if Mozzy still insists on jumping on the counters. |
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